Landlord Cartel ROBS Renters Of BILLIONS With AI Price Fixing | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.

“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”

The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.

“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”

But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.

It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.

“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”

With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.

While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.

But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.

Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.

I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”

And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”

Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”

It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.

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[saigejones]

Rents are OUTRAGEOUS. No one can pay these increases without going homeless. This country is HEARTLESS!😭

[tonytooshort]

That's why I want everyone who says "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" to finish the sentence with "and overcome price gouging, inflation, wage theft, the oligarchy" etc

[RedGanj]

I remember someone talking about this but then an old demented man said something about eating cats and the average US citizens attention span was deflected to that 😢

[iditSammich]

Can't afford a mortgage, can't afford rent. Can't afford decent groceries, can't afford medical costs. Can't afford student debt, and no meaningful wage increases in sight.

This is why people aren't having kids. It isn't laziness and not wanting to have a family, it's our unfortunate and hostile economic reality.

[willmartinez]

"We need Americans to bring back family values and start having kids again"

"But I can't even afford to live on my own"

"Haha, sucks to suck. Not our problem"

[deathtouchltd]

The company I work for uses it. It absolutely disgusts me the way they collab to fix prices. I have witnessed it first hand. You would be shocked about how the owner class talks about us regular folks. They don't see us as people, they only see us for how much money they can steal from us, use us to make and then steal from us, and they view us as peasants and they think we deserve nothing. I have heard the C-suite class talk about us like we don't deserve to live.

[Lumi_Lumi]

It's not "supply & demand" that's the problem. There's enough empty homes in the U.S. to house the homeless three times over. That's THREE empty houses for every ONE homeless person.

The PROBLEM is private equity has bought whole neighbourhoods of houses & apartment complexes & kept them EMPTY instead of selling or renting them out.

The REAL PROBLEM is capitalism, where basic human rights are commodified; housing, healthcare, education, food, water, clothing, public transportation, internet, etc. If you need it to SURVIVE, it's a HUMAN RIGHT, but CAPITALISM puts PROFITS before PEOPLE. #CapitalismKills

[carolloretz]

I had an incident with my landlord sending me a notice of non payment which was wrong and she then denied sending it, when I went back to the AI management page it had been removed. Take a screenshot shot of any activity that you may need in court.

[carycunningham]

This is what class warfare looks like. We live in a corrupt oligarchy. We need ranked-choice voting, ballot access, and more parties.

[JhamEntertainment]

Wow that's crazy! Imagine if housing was treated as a basic right instead of just an asset.

[absolstoryoffiction]

Remember that Fast Food Restaurants are doing a similar price fixing but without AI. As they did so recently in the past two years, post pandemic.

[Codazoa]

My apartment uses realpage and 3 apartments around me do too. Just a happy coincidence that everyone I know around here got hit with a $200/month rent increase (our 10% maximum increase) but the empty units rose over $600/month above that. And the smaller apartments that don't use realpage have risen prices along side these massive apartment blocks. Now looking at $2600 for a one bedroom.

[SMM_NAA]

All of these new developments are arbitrarily expensive, cheaply made, and horribly mismanaged. They're all going to be future slums.

[TheSnodger-ixgx]

If literally EVERYBODY stopped paying their rent this would be over in weeks.

[paigeanderson]

Reminds me of when my former broker told my former roommates that rent would go up by hundreds of dollars and his only reasoning was some printed pages showing new apartment prices on the street. Tell me you're greedy without telling me you're greedy.

[blackholesun]

This story is so much deeper than this AI pricing. The banks give our aggregate account data, based on our paycheck deposits, to all kinds of companies. The goal is to milk every penny from the working class, keeping us struggling, so we are never comfortable with our earning levels, and therefore consistently seeks to maximize the profits of every business. And you thought you were using spreadsheets correctly. 😢😢

[danielahlert]

We the People will only be renters, not owners.

[PollyMiller-gupx]

I live in small college town and it is hard to find a decent place unless you are willing to pay an unreasonable amount. My daughter just graduated and was looking for a one bedroom for a young, single professional. We could not believe the condition and size of the offerings within her price range. At first she was excited to look for a place, but it didn’t take long for it to become rather discouraging. Plus, a few of the rental places didn’t offer tours. They expect you to sign a lease and spend thousands on a place to live for a year sight unseen. I couldn’t believe it.

[sylphlens]

Landlords shouldn't be a thing. Decomodify housing and allow people to buy them and not corporations.

[Red_Howler]

My rent has almost doubled since 2020 for the same apartment.